Iraq Funding Bill Vetoed by BushVoice of America - 5-2-07President Bush has vetoed more than $124 billion
worth of funding for wars in Afghanistan and Iraq because the measure
includes a ...

Iran Offers Iraq $1B For ReconstructionCBS News, NY -5-2-07Zalmay Khalilzad, the former US ambassador to
Iraq, has acknowledged that US and Iraqi officials talked to representatives
of insurgent groups hoping to draw more Sunni groups away from al Qaeda.

2176 Secret Warrants Issued in 2006San Francisco
Chronicle, CA - 5-1-07A secret court approved all but one of the government's
requests last year to search or eavesdrop on suspected terrorists...

A straight jacket seems more
appropriate than impeachment at this point.

"The
Georgetown branch of the Washington, D.C., public library caught on fire today.
The White House said at no time was President Bush in any danger." --Jay
Leno

Other
symptoms of paranoid schizophrenia are: Do you see things that aren't there?
Such as a link between 9/11 and Iraq? Do you - do you feel things that you
shouldn't be feeling, like a sense of accomplishment? Do you have trouble
organizing words into a coherent sentence? Do you hear voices that aren't really
there? Like, oh, I don't know, your imaginary friend, Jesus? Telling you to
start a war in the Middle East. - Bill Maher

Surge Update

Mortar rounds
crashed into the U.S.-controlled Green Zone on Tuesday - the second such barrage
in a 12-hour span - and gunmen ambushed Shiite travelers as part of attacks that
killed at least 44 people nationwide.

An Interior Department
official who was recently rebuked for altering scientific conclusions to reduce
protections for endangered species and providing internal documents to lobbyists
resigned Monday, officials said.

"The
Republicans have their big debate this week at the Reagan Library in Simi
Valley, California. ... Republicans want to see how they stack up against George
W. Bush. It's like a very special edition of 'Are You Smarter Than A Fifth
Grader?'" --Jay Leno

"The
Democrats pulled another one of their slick moves last week. Thursday night they
held their first presidential debate, and they did it on MSNBC. That way if
someone put their foot in their mouth, no one would see it." --Stephen
Colbert

"I
have told people that 20 to 30 years ago I made some mistakes. But I have
learned from those mistakes. What Americans want to hear is: Will the next
president be someone who has matured to the point where he has learned from
mistakes and will bring dignity to the office to which he is elected? That was
my solemn pledge in Texas when I first took office. I have fulfilled that to the
satisfaction of Texas voters. And that is my solemn pledge to America. I'm a
uniter, not a divider." -
George W. Bush, May 1999

An image of
Jupiter's moon Io as seen by the New Horizons spacecraft. A plume can be seen at
the top of the planet. On Jupiter's volcanic moon Io, revealing an
umbrella-shaped plume rising 200 miles into space from the volcano Tvashtar.
"It's really exciting that it performed for us," said John Spencer of the
Southwest Research Institute in Boulder, Colorado. Photo/NASA/JHUAPL